Malibu firm's Failure Wall lets workers learn from their mistakes

Malibu firm's Failure Wall lets workers learn from their mistakes
Jeff Stibel, head of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. in Malibu, believes that you have to be willing to fail to succeed — so he has all of his employees write on a Failure Wall.

What if you were asked to write your failures on a wall, in indelible ink, for everyone to see?

3. failure flair

"You only have 5 failures on the wall."

"We only have to put 5 failures on the wall."

"Yes, that's the minimum. We encourage our employees to express themselves. If you feel comfortable with only doing the minimum, well, we'd just like you to want to write down more failures. Look at Brian, he has 14 failures written on the wall."